Monday, 21 February 2011

A day off

We took lots of rests on the way - to take photos I said, not because I needed to get my breath back. We looked down on our neighbours, figuratively speaking that is

There's a peace up in the hills, Not a tin of paint anywhere to be seen, nor a paintbrush, nor planks of wood flooring waiting to be laid nor even a shower room floor needing to be fixed - just silence and views. An incredible feeling of being in another world where house jobs are unimportant and can wait until tomorrow.

Once there was a forest up here

gnarled old tree roots, some thousand years old I've been told, litter the ground

Tree monsters frozen in time, some sad

others happier, enjoying the late afternoon sun

At the top we look over to the amazing An Teallach. Did I really get up there last spring! I did, and I really really want to go back and complete the walk we didn't finish. This is a mountain that truly is worth making the effort for - need to eat less and exercise more

Snow still stays on the mountain tops

I should have put the wide angle lens on the camera, instead I took a lens I normally use for close up pictures. A reason to come back, and all it takes is walking out of the front door and going upwards, but first I must finish painting the stairwell!

I am just amazed by that environment and your wonderful pictures which make it a reality for me. I spent last weekend in the "mountains" near Sydney Australia, and I thought some views were spectacular, but they pale into insignificance by comparison with your images.

This is not a new life, rather a change in direction. In September 2007 Niels (husband)and I moved to the highlands of Scotland with the intention of building a danish timber framed house on a piece of land we bought just south of Ullapool. The house has now been built, but it isn't exactly finished! This blog will reflect our life here and record the finishing of the house - I hope!